An Interview with F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, has been heralded as one of the outstanding novels of the Jazz Age. The characters that Fitzgerald created in this novel were laudable and disreputable. Therefore, these characters in the novel will be contrasted and elucidated.

Authors from the 1920’s are among the most exceptional and famous writers of today, one of the greatest well-known being F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald wrote multiple extraordinary novels, though he is most accredited for The Great Gatsby. In this book he discloses essential truths about life, which are more relevant in today’s society than ever before. Within the article A Gatsby for Today, Sven Birkerts provides further insight to these truths and imparts the importance of their lessons. F. Scott Fitzgerald reveals important truths about life through the characters Jay Gatsby, who displays disillusionment, and Myrtle Wilson, who demonstrates hope.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is mostly known for his images of young, rich, immoral individuals pursuing the American Dream of the 1920’s (Mangum). This image is best portrayed in his greatest novel, The Great Gatsby, alongside his principal themes, “lost hope, the corruption of innocence by money, and the impossibility of recapturing the past” (Witkoski). Fitzgerald was identified as a modern period writer because his themes and topics were inconsistent with traditional writing (Rahn).

In Bryant Mangum’s review of The Great Gatsby, he critiques Fitzgerald and writes about many of Fitzgerald’s works. He mentions that Fitzgerald’s early work was not as strong as The Great Gatsby and even when it first came out, most people were not impressed. This review gives good content about The Great Gatsby but also gives background and thoughts on Fitzgerald. Opinions of other critics and reviews were referred to, which gave a more well-rounded view of who Fitzgerald was and reasons for his writings.

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, has been celebrated as one of the greatest - if not the greatest - American works of fiction. Of course, one could convincingly argue that Gatsby barely qualified as fiction, as it is the culmination of a trio of Fitzgerald’s work that

Throughout his novel Fitzgerald shows the reader that love is essential to a fully functioning relationship through portraying the failure of relationships based on materialism. All the major relationships presented in the novel were doomed to an extent based on differences in social class/status and obsession with wealth and success. The overriding theme of moral decay in America of the 1920’s determined the nature of society and its relationships, most of which were doomed to

It was a pleasure speaking with you on the phone this evening. Thank you for taking time away from your family and personal life to do so. I loved hearing about the position you have open in your practice. I am excited to hear more about it as it seems like a great fit for me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby was a remarkable book. Fitzgerald Made the characters of the book as real and as personal as possible. Three characteristics stood out in the novel to me. Tom’s Jealousy of Gatsby relationship with his wife, Gatsby’s lies about who he is and his life, and Daisy’s ways to tempt Gatsby to fall in love with her. The novel was inspired by the way he fell in love with his wife Zelda.

In Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, characters deceive others throughout the entire book by living an illusion or a lie. The citizens of East and West egg use each other through their deceptive ways. However, more specifically, Gatsby is the key character of deception, having no respect for himself of the people surrounding him. Throughout the book, the reader can see the figurative and literal aspects of Gatsby’s life along with how it came to a sudden end because of his previous lies. The book also helps the readers see how he deceives every character throughout the continuous lies.

Written during and regarding the 1920s, ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald is both a representation of this distinctive social and historical context, and a construction of the composer’s experience of this era. Beliefs and practises of the present also play a crucial role in shaping the text, in particular changing the way in which literary techniques are interpreted. The present-day responder is powerfully influenced by their personal experiences, some of which essentially strengthen Fitzgerald’s themes, while others compete, establishing contemporary interpretations of the novel.

Throughout the novel “The Great Gatsby”, F. Scott Fitzgerald used a lot of different motifs and themes to symbolize to help see the reality behind Gatsby and the other characters in the novel including Daisy. The author uses various colors and physical places such as the green light at Daisy’s dock as Gatsby’s unattainable dream of being with Daisy while the Eyes of T.J Eckleburg in the valley of ashes to portray as God’s eyes as well as the reader’s eyes watching Gatsby yearn for his dream only for it to be crushed with a bullet and killed. The novel also illustrates how the American dream can attain one’s wealth and glory but at a hefty price of falling for greed and corruption through Gatsby’s fall. In the end, we really wonder why does attaining wealth make one so greedy and why is Gatsby trying to bring Daisy back to him despite it being a moment of the past that cannot be relived, a reality that Gatsby cannot accept. The most important motifs that are prominently symbolized throughout the novel is wealth, the American dream, and corruption.

It was a pleasure to meet you during the mock interviews yesterday. I thoroughly enjoyed our discussion and only regret we were not able to talk longer. Thank you so much for telling me about the Heirs Property Project. I also appreciate all of your great advice about preparing for interviews.

    Some novels have more of an impact in modern society than when they were originally written. This is especially true with Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Modern society can be termed corrupt, complete with tainted morals and an overemphasis on the acquisition of money and friends. Fitzgerald seeks the root of the problem and wants the reader to ponder whether he or she wants money and social status or fulfillment and truth. In his quest to enlighten the reader, Fitzgerald utilizes metaphor and symbols to clarify his message. The author wants to show what happens when the American dream (the pursuit of happiness) becomes warped into the American nightmare (the pursuit of money).

Fitzgerald’s background falls somewhere between those of Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby’s narrator, and Jay Gatsby. It seems that Fitzgerald’s paternal lineage is the model for Gatsby, who came from a modest Midwestern family, while his mother’s lineage became the model for Nick Carraway, whose family was a member of the upper-middle class. After several failed business ventures by Fitzgerald’s father, the family came to rely on his mother’s inheritance for their well-being, leaving the young Fitzgerald uncertain of the social strata to which he belonged. This caused him to ponder whether he would live a life of magnificence or modesty. Through Carraway and Gatsby, we see the conflict that this created in Fitzgerald’s life. In some ways, he desired to earn wealth and fame by any means necessary as Gatsby did, but he also developed an indifferent and thoughtful persona like Carraway. This shows that Fitzgerald’s contrasting desires for material happiness in Gatsby and mental happiness in Carraway carried into his writing.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a story that has many different themes. Fitzgerald shows the themes that he uses through his character’s desires and actions. This novel has themes in it that we deal with in our everyday life. It has themes that deal with our personal lives and themes that deal with what’s right and what’s wrong. There are also themes that have to do with materialistic items that we deal desire on a daily basis. Fitzgerald focuses on the themes of corrupted love, immorality, and the American Dream in order to tell a story that is entertaining to his readers.